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Autonomous Intelligent Botnets Bouncing Back

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the duck-and-cover dept.

coomaria writes "Thought that 2009 was the year botnets died? Well, think again: compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world every single day this year, and it's going to get worse if intelligent and autonomous botnets arrive in 2010 as predicted."

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  1. Re:What OS? by socrplayr813 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sure there are plenty of people running compromised virtual machines, but if they're using WINE, it's not really a virtual machine...

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